When this year started my life was ambling along and I was looking for things to do most days. I was almost glad of my two days of teaching just to help fill up a fairly empty week!
Its now August and that has changed a heap. Today and yesterday have been sensational days and I [...]
As much as we may want to take a more holistic approach to defining / describing the gospel and make it about much more than ‘heaven or hell’ sooner or later we need to discuss issues of sin, forgiveness and atonement.
In some of the pendulum swinging that I have observed in the last few years [...]
I’ve been reading a few new blogs again lately…
Its always good to discover local people who have stuff to say that is worth hearing.
One is Jules Birt, who was at our last Forge intensive. Jules is great guy and has been writing some really good stuff. It looks like he and a few of [...]
‘Counter-cultural’
Tonight we start our time in the sermon on the mount (Matt5-7) and we look at all that crazy stuff Jesus had to say. It really is quite over the top… The theme seems to be very much aorund that of counter-cultural discipleship – challenging the way we see the world working as we follow [...]
Yesterday, after 14 years of being a Baptist pastor I attended my first ever ‘assembly’ meeting. Assemblies are where the churches all across the state come together to discuss issues and vote on stuff.
I was hoping to keep my dismal record intact, and possibly never attend a single meeting, but yesterday did actually kindle [...]
While I’m thinking out loud here’s another one…
Church – how important is it that we have everyone in one place at one time?
Why do I ask?
Well, looking around my neighbourhood it seems like to make that happen is going to be tricky. The core issues are:
shift work – some people cannot meet at the same [...]
How important is reading the Bible to a person’s discipleship?
Recently I seem to be hitting a fair slab of people who tell me they haven’t picked up the Bible in ages. Everything evangelical in me reacts to that fairly strongly as a problem, but is it really a problem?…
It seems to be almost a trend [...]
The good news is” we’re not pregnant!
That might sound a bit odd, but if you’ve been following this blog for the last month you’d know why its good news.
There are 5 embryos left now.
A maximum of 7 little hamos”
The last few days have been incredibly windy over here with 7 metre swells and all sorts of wild weather happening.
Today I am back at school.
When you are a Phys Ed teacher the worst scenario you can face is when it is windy – wind seems to drive kids crazy.
But… make it cold AND windy [...]
Over the last 5 months I have been doing some coaching with a great guy from the Seventh Day Adventist churches.
He discovered some stuff I had written, we had a coffee and he asked me to do some coaching with him because he was feeling the desire to explore new expressions of church and mission.
We [...]